 Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from...  Bulletin - Page 65by North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History - 1913Full view - About this book
 | 1873 - 790 pages
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite m their purest energy ? "To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits — for habit is relative to a stereotyped world... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...dramatic life. How may \vc see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world;... | |
 | 1902 - 550 pages
...life, the great aim should be to pass more swiftly from point to point, and if possible contrive to be present always at the focus where the greatest...flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life ' (pp. 64-5). It is not, however, with this lower Humanism that we are here and now primarily concerned... | |
 | sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 626 pages
...dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses 1 How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relative to a stereotyped world... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pages
...aromatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success 1 Waller. in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relation to a stereotyped... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1888 - 284 pages
...variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses ? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point,...always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. In a sense it might even be said that our failurejs to form ' habits :... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 pages
...variegated, aromatic, life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen by the finest senses? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present...always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relation to a stereotyped world... | |
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